Friday Thoughts and Links

But what’s really important, camera guy, is that local news report. Frame it up.

It’s Friday, and your humble narrator is in San Francisco. And there is one, and only one movie, that sums up this city in the collective unconscious.

The hipsterbags are uber-scruff. But the S.F. hotties are tiny, bubbly and all sorts of sexy.

Here’s your links:

With actor Rip Torn in the news lately for old-age drunkeness, this unedited clip of his early 1970s drug fueled “improv,” in which he hits author Norman Mailer in the head with a hammer, may be his finest moment. Mailer deserved to be hit in the head with a hammer just for writing “The Gospel According to the Son.”

The lovely Yasmine Bleeth, she of the archetypal warning to all hot chicks who date douchebags (Richard Grieco), is back and lookin’ pretty good. Perhaps years of rehab from Grieco Virus infection have at least partially un-Bleethed our titular, and I do mean titular, Bleeth.